budget report questions

[Chris Shoemaker]

On Wed, Sep 12, 2007 at 04:38:57PM +1000, Risto Paasila wrote:
> 
> On 11/09/2007, at 11:09 PM, Chris Shoemaker wrote:
> 
> >On Tue, Sep 11, 2007 at 10:59:19PM +1000, Risto Paasila wrote:
> >>Hello,
> >>
> >>I want to create a budget report which contains only a subset of
> >>accounts.
> >>For example these are the some accounts:
> >>
> >>equipment:cleaning
> >>equipment:grounds
> >>equipment:catering
> >>consumables:cleaning
> >>consumables:catering
> >>
> >>I want display a budget report for a subset containing only cleaning,
> >>and another one for catering and so on.
> >>
> >>The problem is that when I select only the relevant accounts,
> >>the report only shows the last account name, e.g. cleaning.
> >>
> >>The display looks something like this:
> >>cleaning 50 34
> >>cleaning 23 5
> >>
> >>Can it somehow be made to display the full account name (there is a
> >>flag in the options)?
> >>I would like the display to look like:
> >>equipment:cleaning  50 34
> >>consumables:cleaning 23 5
> >
> >There is an option to do this, and it's apparently broken!  Please
> >file a bug on this.
> >
> >>Or do you have any better suggestions how to track business area
> >>budgets?
> >>
> >>Is the any way to have a total budget amount and total actuals for
> >>the displayed accounts?
> >
> >Unfortuantely not, although this is a frequently requested feature.
> 
> is it only a matter of modifying the report (budget.scm)?

Yes, this feature could be implemented by only modifying budget.scm.

-chris